Our Services

The Administration Office of the Preble County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities is responsible for strategic planning for the future of the Board and its services and supports for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities. The planning process aligns its services and supports with the principles of self determination, generally understood to include:

Freedom: Helping individuals with disabilities improve their quality of life in keeping with their hopes, dreams, preferences and priorities;

Authority: Allocating to individuals and their advocates funds to purchase needed and wanted services and supports, through the mechanism of individual budgets;

Support: creating opportunities for the people of Preble County to welcome and include people with disabilities into the rich life of their community;

Responsibility: Enabling people with disabilities to share their gifts and talents through employment and other ways of contributing.

FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES

Family Support Services Program is a program that provides reimbursable services to families of eligible children and adults with mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities living at home who may or may not be currently receiving services from the county board. The program also provides a way to further the unity of the family to meet the special needs of the individual and to live as much like other families as possible.

These support services and help are provided through respite care, counseling/supervision, training/education, special diets, purchase/lease of special equipment, home modification, supports for skill development, or other services which are individualized to each families needs.

Respite care means appropriate, and temporary care, in or out of the home that will provide to the individual with mental retardation and/or developmental disability assistance necessary to sustain the family structure, or to meet planned or emergency needs to the family.

Counseling/supervision/training/education of the individual, the individual’s care givers, and members of the individual’s family aid the family in providing proper care for the individual, provide for the special needs of the family, and assist in all aspects of the individual’s daily living.

Special diets, purchase or lease of special equipment or modifications of the home, if such diets, equipment, or modifications are necessary to improve or facilitate the care and living environment of the individual.

Providing support necessary for the individual’s continued skill development, including such services as development of interventions to cope with unique problems that may occur within the complexity of the family, enrollment of the individual in special summer programs, provision of appropriate leisure activities, and other social skills development activities.

Other services that are in the individual’s service plan and are consistent with assisting a family who keeps an individual with mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities at home and promotes unity of the family, assists the individual to maximize self-sufficiency and prevent inappropriate institutionalization.

Family Support Services are available to qualified families who have a family member with mental retardation and/or developmental disability.

For more information, please contact Karen McCain, Family Support Services Coordinator.

Community and Support Services Department

This department prides itself on being a dynamic team, which works well together in providing service and supports and planning activities for over 170 eligible consumers. Many of those consumers require only occasional casework, but average caseloads for full service planning and coordination are around 30-35 for each of three SSAs.

The department is led by a Director with 30 years of experience in service to persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities, the last 15 with the PCBMRDD. It is staffed by three Service, Support and Advocacy specialists (SSAs), a Community Living and Waiver Coordinator, and a Department Assistant. One SSA has been with the agency for 15 years; the Community Living Coordinator for 27 years; the Department Assistant for 9 years; and the two other SSAs have at least three years experience each in MRDD and other social service capacities.

Investigative Agent services are provided through a full-time staff member that is certified as an Investigative Agent.

The Director and the staff are consistently involved with inter-agency collaboration in the community. The PCBMRDD has a respected history of leadership and participation in Preble County Family and Children First, including Help Me Grow and Inter-agency Diversion Team; United Way; Domestic Violence Round Table; Preble County Health Consortium and various other collaborations. Excellent working relationships have been established with contracted provider agencies, Job and Family Services, and local mental health service providers.

Early Intervention Services

The PCBMRDD employs one Early Intervention Specialist. This professional works in collaboration with the Help Me Grow Program to provide developmental training and service coordination to eligible infants and families.

Click here to see the Early Intervention Services June/July 2006 Newsletter

Click here to see the Early Intervention Services August/September 2006 Newsletter

Residential Supports

The PCBMRDD does not operate any residential services. However, there is a quite extensive network of residential settings and support services utilized by consumers and governed by contracts with the PCBMRDD.

Trinity Missions New Paris – 66 bed ICF/MR located near New Paris
Community Concepts – two, 8 bed ICF/MR group homes in Gratis
Resident Homes, Inc. – 3 RFW homes with a total of 20 residents
Home Farms – 2 RFW homes with a total of 12 residents
IO Waivers – 11 consumers living in their own homes or apartments with support services from: ECI, Support Care, and Champaign Residential Services
Supported Living – 11 consumers living in their own home or apartment with assistance from individual support providers.

Additionally, a not-for-profit organization, The Training Center, Inc., acts as a housing corporation to purchase, maintain and manage residences in the community in which many of the consumers with supported living services reside.

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FISCAL

The Preble County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities must continue to make wise use of all funds received from local, state, and federal sources. The Business Office staff who process and maintain fiscal records include the Finance Director and Medicaid Services Manager.

The Preble County Board of MR/DD has a continuing levy of 1.73 mils that was passed in November of 2001 with 62% of local support. The Board’s current operating budget for 2006 is $3.2 million including Supported Living.

The Board employs 68 staff members and contracts with L&M Products (sheltered workshop) to provide quality day habilitation, production, and senior services.

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ADULT SERVICES - L & M PRODUCTS, INC.

Incorporated January 17, 1973 as the Preble County Adult Workshop, located in a former car dealership building on South Cherry Street.
Broke ground in 1981 for new 14,000 sq. ft. building after many years of working with the state on financing.
November 1982 moved into the new building at the corner of Lexington and Maple Streets and renamed our facility L & M Products, Inc. - enrollment of 44 people.
Current enrollment is 172 people with disabilities from Preble County - 12 times the number we served 30 years ago and almost 4 times the number we had enrolled when we moved into the facility in 1982.
Expanded vocational training in-house. Workers are trained to do light assembly work, package, operate small machines, collate, shrink packaging, weigh/measuring, inspection, mailing, parcel shipping. Current contracts include:

Iams Company Mfg.	Lewisburg Container	Rohm and Haas
Elder Davis Company	Magnode Corporation	Vandor Corporation
Henny Penny Corporation	Neaton Auto Products	Weyerhaeuser
Parker Hannifin Corp.	Prescott Ellen

Revised Hab/Adult Training Program for those with special needs to help improve their quality of life.

Our Supported Employment Program began in 1992 and oversees people working full or part time in a variety of community jobs, including mobile crews and an industrial enclave. Twenty-five enrollees are working at the following community businesses:

Goodwill Industries of Dayton, Inc.	Preble County Engineers
Preble Co. Mental Health & Recovery Bd.	Henny Penny Corporation
McDonalds Restaurant	Wendy’s Restaurant
Pizza Hut	KFC

Since April 1995, L & M enrollees have worked alongside Henny Penny Corporation employees in an enclave arrangement doing a variety of jobs for the food service company. Five to six workers and an L & M supervisor work daily, Monday through Friday. It’s been a win/win situation for both organizations. A full time Senior Retirement Program started November 1994 and was located in the social room of the First Church of God, two blocks from our main facility for almost 8 years
Supported Home Services provide training opportunities for people in their home environment.
A much needed Health and Safety Department which enlists a registered nurse was initiated in 1994.
L & M begins operation of the Hueston Woods beach concession stand enclave for the summer of 2003.
Received State Building Grant for $600,000 in September 1999. Began construction in July 2001 and moved in May 28, 2002.
Applied for and received our fourth ODOT Specialized Grant for a light transit bus. Bus delivered April 2003.